Edgar Wright is [not?] going to put a man in a suit and remake ‘Gorgo’?

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1. Rhythm-X 05/02/2008 @ 9:08am

   This could be the greatest thing ever.  I’d much rather see Edgar Wright do a man-in-suit movie than Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who just apparently cancelled something similar.  Excellent.

2. dopepope 05/02/2008 @ 9:43am

   Gorgo was a great giant monster movie. A lot of it still holds up even today! I’m interested in seeing how a revival could work. Cloverfield’s showing seems to be stirring up a few giant monster movies for the future. A genre I wouldn’t mind seeing in the midst of the superhero-comicbook movie era.

3. Edgar Wright 05/02/2008 @ 9:51am

   Ummmm. Untrue.

4. dopepope 05/02/2008 @ 10:02am

   Oh snap. It’s EW himself. What’s untrue, that the project is happening, or that it will be man in suit?

5. Swarez 05/02/2008 @ 11:40am

   I love Gorgo, it was in fact the first giant monster film I ever saw and one of the first movie memory I had.
   I later found out that my uncle had a small part in, according to IMDB at least but I’ve never seen him in it.

   I do wish that a proper DVD release would come out, the last release was way too dark and muddy.

6. Avery 05/02/2008 @ 2:05pm

   We came across this news bit on a French forum.We didn’t want to be ‘jumping the gun’ and getting anyone’s hopes up,but we also didn’t want to be kicking ourselves about it later for missing such a huge scoop.It would be a fantastic idea though.

7. Edgar Wright 05/02/2008 @ 7:05pm

   It’s untrue that I’m remaking Gorgo. Don’t know where that came from.

   I have the DVD, but am not doing a man in suit film in the foreseeable future.

   However I would like to remake WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS as WHAT HAPPENS IN TOHO and have billboards touting MECHA CAMERON VS ASHTON ZILLA.

   Print that rumor.

8. Avery 05/02/2008 @ 7:18pm

   LOL!!Thanks for clearing that up Edgar!!The source was from a French forum:  http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=slv&lp=xx_en&trurl=http://lemondedeskaijus.forumdediscussions.net/films-d-autres-studios-f5/un-remake-de-gorgo-t112.htm that had gotten it from some radio show: “FSX Radio London”??Well,it would have been nice to see and I think you would have done a great job with it.I do like the “VEGAS ZILLA” idea though...hmmm??Can I quote you on that??LOL!

9. Rhythm-X 05/02/2008 @ 8:26pm

   There’s corrections, and then there’s corrections.  Keep up the great work, Edgar.  Even if it isn’t GORGO.

10. Keizer_G 05/03/2008 @ 5:25am

    I want to clarify some things since it seems I’m the origin of this rumor .

    First I haven’t heard anything on the radio , I was told about a radio interview , it’s not the same thing . I made some research and I didn’t find anything about this radio and this supposed interview .
    It’s true I’ve opened a thread on my forum about that , but it was because I found nothing and I hoped someone else could give me information .
    It seems I was misunderstood (and the yahoo translation wasn’t speculative enough I think), I never was afirmative on this remake it’s only something I heard and about what I wanted information .
    I couldn’t have imagined someone would find this post in my tiny forum on the HUGE internet . And now this rumor has crossed the Atlantic ...

    Sorry guys for the misunderstanding but it was only a rumor , and a false one seemingly .

11. Avery 05/03/2008 @ 7:32am

    It’s ok ‘Keizer G’,I don’t think that anyone was upset by any of this.Theses misunderstandings happen all the time.It’s a big part of what the news business is all about.A lot of supposed ‘scoops’ just turn out to be rumors in the end.It was actually on ‘two’ websites before ‘Robo Japan’.Also the size of a website doesn’t matter.Some of the biggest scoops are broken on the tiniest of blogs.I would also like to point out that it was posted in “?"= in question form on both this site and the original “Robo Japan” post.No one assumed to know anything for a fact,and we were all just simply asking the question.Now he has kindly taken time out of his busy schedule to answer it and we can all move on with our lives.No harm done.

12. Ken Hulsey 05/04/2008 @ 10:34am

    I feel that I should chime in here. Indeed I did post the information as a rumor. I normally don’t do this, but you have to admit that it was just too juicy to pass up. As Avery mentioned above, there were other sites that were listing “Gorgo” as a done deal, that is why I felt comfortable about posting the article. Oddly enough, most of those sites were French in origin. I can only wonder if the same person who sent Keizer G the info was spreading it around the country. I do want to say that I am sorry for helping this one get out of control.

    One thing that is getting lost in all of this, is the fact that there is a market for a Gorgo remake. If you look at all the postings about this around the net, they all are very possitive. Maybe Mr. Wright should look at this a possible project after all? He may not have planned to do the film, but the fans of his work have spoken and they would all love to see it. Meybe this mess could convince him that this may be a worthy project to take on in the future. Just a thought.

    If not Mr. Wright, then maybe someone else?

    These things happen from time to time. Last year Quentin Tarantino stated, also on UK radio, that he wanted to make a Godzilla movie. Does that mean that he is making one? Highly unlikely, but you can see how that kind of thing could be taken out of context.

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